The Quay Sessions Highlights The Quay Sessions

Hello and welcome to the banks of the River Clyde,

where we record The Quay Sessions every week on BBC Radio Scotland.

Let's have a look at what's coming up in our latest

collection of highlights.

We have Pictish Trail...

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Dan Croll...

And opening up for the recent 6 Music Festival, Modern Studies,

and the legendary Edwyn Collins.

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-Thank you very much!

Country singer Holly Macve

and, with their special furry fan,

British Sea Power.

Thank you all very much for coming!

But first, a band who rose through the ranks of the London

folk-rock scene.

They've now gone widescreen, embracing a more anthemic approach

on their latest album, and to great effect, as you're about to hear.

This is Bear's Den.

# Auld wives lifts

# Auld wives lifts

# How have you got here?

# Where do you come from?

# What do you tell?

# I see his face

# I see his face

# Carved deep in the stone

# Another mind you have taken away

# But I swam across the ocean to find your memory

# A trace of all that you have left behind

# And the auld wives swore that you were born to die

# Without a child for to call out your name

# Now I call your name

# I call your name

# But you can't hear me now

# No, you don't recognise my face

# Who are you?

# Who are you?

# And why do you call me that?

# How dare you call me that

# But I swam across the ocean to find your memory

# A trace of all that you have left behind

# And the auld wives swore that you were born to die

# Without a child for to call out your name

# But I call your na-aa-ame

# I call your na-aa-ame

# I call your na-aa-ame

# I call your na-aa-ame

# But I swam across the ocean to find your memory

# A trace of all that you have left behind

# And the auld wives swore that you were born to die

# Without a child for to call out your name

# To call your name. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Please welcome to The Quay Sessions, Dan Croll!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

This song is called Away From Today.

# I hit the ground running

# Running all the way from sin

# She stole my heart faster

# Than the bullet that I put in him

# She took the case and I grabbed the wheels

# She taught me to fend and taught me to steal away

# My hands are shaking My knees are weak

# The rush I crave the long you seek away

# Away, away from today

# Away from today

# Away from today

# I open my eyes and roll to my side

# And the surprise of the morning sun

# She took to the road and left me alone

# Before a heartbeat had begun

# So I drove through the night And chased it to light

# The hunt lasted days I thought I'd lost my way

# But there she lay

# Now my hands are stained

# My tears are black

# Watch me as I turn my back and go

# Away

# Away from today

# Away from today

# Away from today

# Away from today

# Away from today

# Away from today. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# I lie still

# And think of you lying

# I think about your lines and your hollows

# I think of the sea

# And its hallowed furrows

# Today's regrets

# Tomorrow's sorrows

# Today's regrets

# Tomorrow's sorrows

# You're dive-bombing in the bay

# Fall in belonging and lifting up the same way

# The sea now ultramarine

# The sand, a drum

# The sun, a shiny tambourine

# A rising tide swells and recedes

# Gives a little

# Takes more than it needs

# They're dive-bombing in the bay

# Fall in belonging and lifting up the same way

# And none would sing along the thread

# Yet on the wing, each one behind the one ahead

# A rising tide swells and recedes

# Gives a little

# Takes more than it needs

# A rising tide swells and recedes

# Gives a little

# Takes more than it needs. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

The time is now with us, ladies and gentlemen.

We've been trying to get this man to The Quay Sessions for

a very long time indeed.

What better occasion than our very special link-up with 6 Music?

Give it up for the one, the only, Edwyn Collins!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# When I first saw you something stirred within me

# You were standing sultry in the rain

# If I could have held you I would have held you

# Rip it up and start again

# Rip it up and start again

# Rip it up and start again

# I hope to God you're not as dumb as you make out

# I hope to God

# I hope to God

# And I hope to God I'm not a snob as you make out

# I hope to God

# I hope to God

# When I first saw you my heart reached out for you

# My arms stuck like glue to my sides

# If I could have held you I would have held you

# I'd have jumped right up and swallowed my pride

# Rip it up and start again

# Rip it up and start again

# I hope to God you're not as dumb as you make out

# I hope to God

# I hope to God

# And I hope to God I'm not a snob as you make out

# I hope to God

# I hope to God

# And there were times I'd take my pen

# Feel obliged to start again

# I took the best but there are things in life

# That worked out quite express

# You know me I'm acting dumb, dumb

# You know the scene is very humdrum

# And my favourite song's entitled Boredom

# Da-dum, da-dum... #

Go, Sean!

# Rip it up and start again

# I said rip it up and start again

# I said rip it up and rip it up Rip it up and rip it up

# Rip it up and start again

# Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo... #

MAIN RIFF PLAYS

# Rip it up

# Rip it up

# Rip it up

# Rip it up

# Rip it up

# Rip it up

# Rip it up

# Rip it up. #

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-Thank you!

Thank you!

# Sechs Freunde!

# Sechs Freunde!

# Sechs Freunde!

# Sechs Freunde!

# Oh, Sechs Freunde!

# Sechs Freunde!

# If you must act like a beast of the field

# Oh, what does it yield?

# There's a hole in the atmosphere

# Every time you speak

# All your questions, questions, questions

# They are on hold again

# And all the answers, answers, answers

# They all sound the same

# And you can't say

# Sechs Freunde

# Sechs Freunde

# Keep on trying, keep on trying, keep on trying, will you

# Sechs Freunde

# Sechs Freunde

# Keep on trying, keep on trying, keep on trying, will you

# When the hawks of the city fall

# Fall like little thrills

# And tomorrow is a place that they won't let you go

# All your brethren, brethren, brethren are in bed again

# And all your stigmas, stigmas, stigmas that will never end

# And you can't say

# Sechs Freunde

# Sechs Freunde

# Keep on trying, keep on trying, keep on trying, will you

# Sechs Freunde

# Sechs Freunde

# Keep on trying, keep on trying, keep on trying, will you

# Oh, yeah

# Oh, ooh

# Can't we stay, can't we stay?

# Can't we stay, can't we stay?

# So keep on trying, keep on trying, keep on trying

# Oh, yeah

# Keep on trying, keep on trying, keep on trying

# Oh, yeah

# Yeah, keep on trying, keep on trying, keep on trying

# Oh, yeah

# Oh, yeah

# Sechs Freunde

# Sechs Freunde

# Keep on trying, keep on trying, keep on trying

# Oh, yeah

# Sechs Freunde

# Sechs Freunde

# Keep on trying, keep on trying, keep on trying

# Oh, yeah

# Freunde

# Sechs Freunde

# Oh, Freunde. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Please welcome to The Quay Sessions, Holly Macve!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# I spend my summer by the sea

# To look for what I lost

# Oh, once I had a dream or two

# But I sold them at a cost

# Often I would wonder why

# We try so hard to stay alive

# When nothing ever seemed to cease the pain

# My best friend was a homeless man

# With a beard to hide his face

# Secretly I loved him so

# But he was twice my age

# We'd talk and we would sing all day

# Collecting sorrows to throw away

# But nothing ever seemed to cease the pain

# I worked by day and by night I drank

# I danced until my mind was blank

# And when the morning came to me

# I'd only ever do the same

# Everybody said to me

# Maybe what would set me free

# But no-one has the answers

# Oh, no-one has any answers at all

# The sky was blue and the sun was out

# Whilst I hid from the world

# Life was strange through the window panes

# And all my toes would curl

# Oh, I wanted nothing more

# Than to understand what we're living for

# When all we do is damn what we start

# People put their faith in God

# They don't think

# They just nod their heads

# Cos they just wanna know

# When they die, where they're gonna go

# Everybody said to me

# Maybe it will set you free

# But no-one has the answers

# Oh, no-one has any answers at all

# No-one has any answers at all

# No-one has any answers at all

# No-one has any answers at all. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you.

Ah, such a fantastic new and distinctive voice on the scene -

that's Holly Macve.

And, remember, you can watch extended sets

from all of our artists over on the iPlayer,

or visit the website to listen to our weekly

BBC Radio Scotland show and find out how to sign up for tickets.

But to play us out, the Isle of Eigg's very own musical maverick.

This is the mighty Pictish Trail.

# You feel light through golden eyes

# Sing sun-warped screams at passers-by

# The cassette decayed tape spool delayed and fried

# You should let it all rewind

# To solemn autumn morning shine

# And start up again

# Sing up again and over every line

# You are never coming back

# Crawl into the after life

# You can never turn it back

# Surrender to the after life

# Reliving life, one side at a time

# Future echoes pass you by

# As we near the end

# A noose around the neck

# Say it isn't mine

# Reeling years, one side at a time

# Slide through gears, life self-rewinds

# Goes on again and on and then

# Remember to remind

# You are never coming back

# Crawl into the after life

# You can never turn it back

# Surrender to the after life

# Oh, crawl into the after life

# Oh, crawl into the after life

# You are never coming back

# Crawl into the after life

# You can never turn it back

# Surrender to the after life

# Not coming back, not coming back

# Not coming back, not coming back

# Not coming back, not coming back

# Not coming back, not coming back

# Not coming back, not coming back

# Not coming back, not coming back

# You are never coming back

# Crawl into the after life

# You are never coming back

# Surrender to the after life

# Don't let it come back around

# To haunt you, oh

# Don't let it come back around to haunt you

# Not coming back, not coming back. #